Anthropic launches Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets in workplace push

Anthropic has expanded beyond its developer-tool stronghold into mainstream workplace software. At an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company announced three new AI-powered applications — Claude Meetings, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets — all launching in beta, alongside newly general-availability data features and connectors that embed third-party business apps directly inside Claude.

The move targets non-technical knowledge workers: people who spend their days in meetings, brainstorms and spreadsheets rather than terminals. According to The Verge, the tools are among Anthropic's first native products for that audience, arriving roughly two and a half years after the company first introduced its Artifacts interface and joining existing offerings such as Claude Docs, Slides, Design and Motion.

What each tool does

Claude Meetings adds Claude to video calls as a visible participant. As TechCrunch describes it, the assistant follows the conversation and starts working in real time — drafting the plan being discussed, mapping a timeline onto a whiteboard, answering questions in the meeting chat and pulling figures from connected work apps when someone asks for last year's numbers. After the call ends, the notes, action items and other materials Claude created are available in claude.ai. At launch it supports Google Meet, with additional platforms expected to follow.

The feature ships with guardrails. Claude identifies itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat, it will not join calls that include external guests unless an administrator authorizes it, and it automatically leaves if an outside participant joins mid-meeting.

Claude Whiteboards is a shared board where a team can think out loud and have Claude organize the discussion into a visual workspace with timelines and deadlines. Anthropic notes that many people already brainstorm with Claude but previously had to copy and paste results elsewhere; now teams can work on the same board simultaneously, and Claude can convert a finished board into a document or slide deck. Whiteboards also function inside Meetings, building up while people talk.

Claude Sheets lets teams ask Claude to build working spreadsheets — a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, for example — complete with multiple tabs, formulas, formatting and dropdown menus. Claude then keeps editing cells alongside the team and outlines each change it makes so users can see what it did.

Per TechCrunch, Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta on all paid plans across web, desktop and mobile, while Meetings is limited to Team and Enterprise subscriptions. Anthropic also announced that Claude Data, previously called Claude Dashboards when it entered beta in October, is now generally available on paid plans; it connects Claude to data warehouses and CRM systems and responds to questions with dashboards, written data stories or narrated videos.

Deeper app integrations

The company additionally unveiled interactive connectors that open the full versions of partner applications — Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot among them — inside Claude, so users can edit a PDF in a native Adobe editor or check a HubSpot campaign tracker without leaving the assistant. According to The Verge, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol marketplace has grown to more than 9,000 plugins since launching about two years ago, and the company now wants those connections to run deeper so that everyday services simply live inside Claude rather than in separate browser tabs.

A crowded and high-stakes market

The launch lands in an increasingly crowded field. Google's Gemini can already join meetings and take live notes, and OpenAI's ChatGPT offers meeting recording features; at its DevDay event last month, OpenAI leaned further into integrated apps and connectors to support its Dots agents, as The Verge notes. TechCrunch adds that Anthropic's announcement comes just weeks after OpenAI introduced its own workplace collaboration tools, with both labs effectively building office suites to compete with Microsoft and Google — while Meta is entering the race with its Muse agent, which constructs small apps on demand.

There is also a financial backdrop. The Verge reports that Anthropic is under pressure to generate more revenue and product engagement ahead of an IPO that could rank among the most valuable public debuts on record, and investors want a credible path to profit.

Why it matters

Anthropic built its reputation on enterprise and coding tools, and product lead Nicholas Lin told The Verge that Claude Code reshaped how engineers worked a year ago — but the company now sees everyday knowledge workers as the gap it needs to close, while acknowledging that friction still keeps many non-developers from adopting AI. If Anthropic can turn Claude from a chat window people visit into the surface where meetings, documents and spreadsheets actually happen, it would deepen engagement in exactly the way a pre-IPO company needs, and it would escalate the contest with OpenAI, Google and Meta over who supplies the default AI layer for office work.